Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

It's National Beer Day, so it's a good time to talk about a plan from the 1960s, when beer magnate Alfred Heineken tried to rework his company's green bottles so they could be upcycled into bricks for low-income houses. Plus: it’s beer day every day at the Beer Can Museum and Beer Can Hall of Fame in Taunton, Massachusetts. 100,000 Bottles of Beer in the Wall (Cabinet Magazine) Did Alfred Heineken Invent Bottle To Function as a Brick To Build Houses? (Snopes) Beer Can Museum & Beer Can Hall of Fame We raise a glass to our Patreon backers, who support this show every day --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/support